It's still a good show, but I alredy figured it was fake the first time I seen it.
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Man Vs. Wild = busted
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ibanezcollector
Yoyo's Hurt When You Crank It Into Your Face
yeah, I watched a few minutes of it several weeks ago and kept thinking..."duh, what about the cameraman?".
Yeah, I figured something fishy was going on with that one.
There was a different show on with a Canadian guy doing it, but he carried his own camera and didn't have a film crew with him like this guy does. I believed that one much more.
There was a different show on with a Canadian guy doing it, but he carried his own camera and didn't have a film crew with him like this guy does. I believed that one much more.
yea i prefer the one with the canadian guy too, also partly because of the whole cameraman thing. also, the name "Bear Grylls" is just way too cliché in a burly-man kinda way for me. i mean, every time i hear it i just scoff because it's so cliché it's not even funny. (granted, the very first time i heard it was his name i laughed, but that was it)
plus, grylls just does stupid things. he purposefully puts himself in danger to prove something works. while i appreciate that he's trying to help people, don't jump into the middle of a quicksand pit without a rope or something already to you and something else, regardless of how many paramedics/safety experts/etc are around you.
edit: now i remember the title of the other show: survivorman
plus, grylls just does stupid things. he purposefully puts himself in danger to prove something works. while i appreciate that he's trying to help people, don't jump into the middle of a quicksand pit without a rope or something already to you and something else, regardless of how many paramedics/safety experts/etc are around you.
edit: now i remember the title of the other show: survivorman
"Survivorman" with Les Stroud. I've argued with all of my friends that it was a more credible undertaking than Man v Wild. I guess I win.
Oh well I'll still watch it. I'm not a proud man. I'll watch a piece of aluminum foil in the breeze.
So was any of this stuff real? Was he still catching his own fish and eating them raw? Was he still catching live snakes with his bare hands and wearing them around his neck? Was he still starting his fire with couple pieces of wood and whatnot? If so I still have respect for this guy. I didn't believe everything that was going on was real, but I always hoped some of it was.
Mike Money
In Memoriam
I learned all the crap he knows how to do at a summer camp when i was between the ages of 11 and 14.
My moms church, Seven Day Adventist, has the only privately owned summer camp inside Yosemite National Park (Camp Wawona)
It is just up a road from the Wawona Resort...
They have rock climbing camp, cowboy camp (horse skills and such), water camp (they drive out to a lake for the week and go wake boarding and stuff), swimming camp, art camp, golf camp, back packing camp, and indian camp.
In indian camp, your campsite is down by the river where they constructed authentic (for the region) Tee Pees out of redwood bark and branches.
We learned how to use dirt, and mud as camo, how to make tea out of redwood leaves, how to build shelters (In particular, that one he made using a Y shaped stick, a longer stick as the top center, and then smaller twigs and fallen foliage as insulation)
We learned how to make fire by rubbing a stick into a flat piece of wood... Hell, we even learned how to do it better.
Strip wood into a rope, find a stick suitable for a bow, attatch the rope to the string in bow form, and then rap the string around another stick to make it spin faster and make embers more quickly.
Basically, as much as i do enjoy the show, it is nothing that an 11 year old cant learn at a church camp in a week.
Regardless of whether he sleeps in a hotel, he still drinks his own urine and eats sheep eyeballs.
That counts for something.
That counts for something.
Bear is legit. He's ex-SAS, I'd take it as a given that he could survive. Of course, the show is fake. 
Bear's done his time as a soldier, and I don't blame him for wanting to make a bit of cash, and if that means a few concessions to "thrill seekers" television that so be it. I'm quite sure if he needed to he could survive on his own, but there is a camera crew to think about, and why does he need the stress of surviving in the wild if they're just going to swan off to cabin every night?
I guess the real deal is Ray Mears, he is excellent. Of course, he sets a much more relaxed pace than Bear does on his show, totally different angle. It's less the danger of nature for Ray, rather, the beauty of nature. And so, the producers are the crooks here. Bear is just the face, and I've still got immense respect for him.
Bear's done his time as a soldier, and I don't blame him for wanting to make a bit of cash, and if that means a few concessions to "thrill seekers" television that so be it. I'm quite sure if he needed to he could survive on his own, but there is a camera crew to think about, and why does he need the stress of surviving in the wild if they're just going to swan off to cabin every night?
I guess the real deal is Ray Mears, he is excellent. Of course, he sets a much more relaxed pace than Bear does on his show, totally different angle. It's less the danger of nature for Ray, rather, the beauty of nature. And so, the producers are the crooks here. Bear is just the face, and I've still got immense respect for him.
Survivorman++.
Poor guy. The thing to think about while watching that is some of the wide angle shots, eh had to go setup the camera, do the shot, then go back and get the dang camera!
Poor guy. The thing to think about while watching that is some of the wide angle shots, eh had to go setup the camera, do the shot, then go back and get the dang camera!
I'll watch anyway. 
